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"Colonial-Office, April 17, 1828
The King has been pleased to appoint Major-General Nathaniel Blackwell to be Governor and Commander in Chief of the Island of Tobago." (April 1828 ? 1833)
His father may be Ebenezer BLACKWELL who was a banker.
MAJOR-GEN. BLACKWELL, C.B. Aug.28 1833. At Cheltenham, Major-Gen. Nathaniel Blackwell, C.B. late Governor of Tobago.
. This officer entered the army as Ensign in the 94th foot, and obtained his Lieutenantcy in the same corps. He served in those ranks at Gibraltar, the Cape of Good Hope, in the East Indies, during the Mysore war, and at the siege of Seringapatam. He returned to England in bad health ; and Dec. 11, 1800, was appointed to a company in the 3d Battalion of the 60th foot, from which he was removed to the 41st foot, Aug. 7, 1801. With the latter he served in Canada for four years; and then, returning to England, was appointed Aid-de-camp to Major-Gen. the Earl of Banbury. He next obtained a Majority in the 1st West India regiment, with which he served at Dominica, Barbadoes, and Antigua, and was present at the capture of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Santa Cruz. In 1808 he was appointed Lt.-Col. in the 4th West India regiment. He commanded the troops sent from Barbadoes to Marie Galante, when that island was attacked by the French, and was present at the reduction of Martinique and Guadaloupe. In 1811 he was appointed Lieut-Col. in the 62d foot," and in Oct. 1812 embarked with the 2d battalion of that regiment "for Spain, when he joined the army on its crossing the Bidassoa, and was present at the battle of the Nive. On the King's birth-day in 1814 he received the brevet rank of Colonel; and, at the latter end of June, 1815, he embarked with his regiment for France, where it remained a few months. In 1819 Col. Blackwell was appointed Commandant of the Hibernian School, Dublin. He attained the rank of MajorGeneral in 1825, and was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Tobago April 17, 1828. He returned from that colony about a twelvemonth ago.
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